Time running out for starving towns under siege for 8 weeks

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Thousands of people in the besieged town of Yefren, in the southwestern
mountains of Libya, are surviving on rainwater and tinned food, having been
trapped for almost eight weeks by Colonel Gaddafi’s forces.

According to residents to whom The Times spoke yesterday by satellite
phone, about 10,000 people who live in Yefren and a neighbouring town,
Algalaa, have been under siege since April 3.

Speaking from inside Yefren, a man called Sefao who declined to give his full
name for fear of retribution, said the town believed it could hold out only
for a week more because forces loyal to